Freedom of Expression: Resistance and Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property
by Kembrew McLeod
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8 ratings, 3.75 average rating, 2 reviews
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published
March 8th 2007
by Univ Of Minnesota Press
binding
Paperback, 392 pages
isbn
0816650314
(isbn13: 9780816650316)
description
Freedom of Expression® covers the ways in which intellectual property laws have been used to privatize all forms of expression—from guitar r...more
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Read in March, 2008
I'm not certain Kembrew is the writer all the creative commonistas have been waiting for, but this is perfectly readable on material and verve alone. There's the hobbyist irregularity of a Greil Marcus book, but also the trainhopping enthusiasm of investigative poetics: compost, samples, station-to-station mischief, zigzag wanderlust.
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Read in October, 2008
Amazing book. I could quote the whole thing. American trademark and copyright law have moved far from their origins and are terribly destructive in their current form.
